Introduction: Nordic equality and anti-discrimination laws in the throes of change

Hellum, AnneDepartment of Public and International Law within the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo, Norway (author)

This book provides insights into the drive to achieve substantive gender equality in four Nordic countries: Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It draws a diverse and complex picture of the long, uneven, and unfinished process towards that goal. These countries’ systematic use of a combination of political and legal instruments has been described as the Nordic gender equality model. The overall aim of such an approach is to achieve substantive equality through a variety of measures that go beyond formal equality. Laws and policies on gender equality vary with the political, social and legal context in each of the Nordic countries, but the Nordic gender equality model may be understood as consisting of three key components. The first is an overarching gender equality policy. The second is welfare legislation that has an explicit or implicit impact on gender relations. The third component is what we refer to as ‘gender equality and anti-discrimination law regimes’: laws that prohibit gender discrimination and promote gender equality through proactive measures, in combination with low-threshold enforcement systems.

Ikdahl, IngunnDepartment of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway (author)
Blaker Strand, VibekeDepartment of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway (author)
Gunnarsson, Åsa,1958-Umeå universitet,Juridiska institutionen(Swepub:umu)asgu0002 (author)
Svensson, Eva-Maria,1958Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Juridiska institutionen,Department of Law,Department of Law, School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden(Swepub:gu)xsveev (author)
Department of Public and International Law within the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo, NorwayDepartment of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway (creator_code:org_t)

In:Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change Legal developments in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and IcelandLondon : Routledge97810320012589781003172840

By the author/editor: Hellum, Anne; Ikdahl, Ingunn; Blaker Strand, V ...; Gunnarsson, Åsa, ...; Svensson, Eva-Ma ...

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SOCIAL SCIENCES: SOCIAL SCIENCES; and Other Social Sci ...; and Gender Studies

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